Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the thing. How much is it costing the US military to protect every ship going in or out of the Strait, compared to what it cost pre-war (which was zero)? 99020
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People have heard about the phonics vs triple-queuing fiasco but there is a similar issue in math where ed school ideologues have stigmatized the normal and necessary work of drilling novice students in the fundamentals. www.slowboring.com/p/math-needs...slowboring.comMath needs a phonics-style reckoningTeachers should teach students how to do stuff correctly. 108011
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is an incredibly important point. Every time I've warned of fascism or dictatorship, people have laughed and said that full-blown dictatorship has obviously not arrived. But that's often not how it arrives, fully garbed. It arrives thru steady erosion of norms that you barely notice are gone. 720462
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And it’s about to come out in paperback. 1303
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026PBS NOVA will have an episode on Space Wars Oct 7th including me as an expert. Final boss for a science kid short of hosting the third run of Cosmos. I didn't make the trailer but I'm much more boring than @vsamsondc.bsky.social or @planet4589.bsky.social video.nhpbs.org/video/space-...video.nhpbs.orgNOVA | Space Wars Preview | Season 53 | Episode 12Inside the escalating military struggle to control space and the satellites we rely on. 915735
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nobody knew. Highly classified failure of the Soviet warning system kept under wraps for years. Happy Almost Nuclear War Day, for those who celebrate 1629128
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 24/09/2026spread of israeli settlements/outposts in the west bank, 1970-2026 - al jazeera 07428
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A week late, but this is fall weather music youtu.be/GtLQi1wbVok?...youtu.beSeptember FifteenthYouTube video by Pat Metheny Group - Topic 2312010
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The media has done a terrible job highlighting that the ONLY refugees the US has accepted over the past year are White South African farmers. No one else is deemed worthy of consideration. It's an explicitly racist policy of the worst sort. 412945
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/09/2026@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Trump only cares about his ballroom. He only cares about his arch. He only cares about tearing down the Kennedy Center. He only cares about putting his name on things. He does not actually care about the American people struggling." 39887253
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Tear it down in broad daylight 1131584158
Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Share a television show that raised you.static.klipy.comVillain Traintracks CartoonALT: Villain Traintracks Cartoon 050
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I think the main thing to realize is that he plans to use all this equipment he’s bringing into D.C., at the ballroom, the arch, Nat Guard, etc. against Americans if he feels it’s needed, not against a foreign enemy. 2710727
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦CDK@CRM-114/AE-35/M5 @cdavidkz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump plans to murder protesters... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump says planned 250-foot arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipersThe president’s post about the 250-foot arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project. 0104
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026National security expert here, and speaking strictly personally, what the f#ck??? 7660898
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comTrump’s Monumental ObsessionThe president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself. 1342719725
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Over on Substack, I have thoughts on the Greenland crisis. Bottom line: It's good that the crisis is over (for now). It should never have begun in the first place. This shows the cost of having an out-of-control president who governs based on whim and ego and bluster. bit.ly/3TEhUgAbit.lyTrump ends the Greenland crisis he created. For now.Trump didn’t get anything justifying the massive strain he put on trans-Atlantic relations 1212525
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Dave Kearn @davekearnjr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Investigations on day one of the next Congress… 141
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trying to actually persuade the public of something rather than just yell at politicians to try to make them take unpopular positions is very underrated www.slowboring.com/p/trying-to-... 8455
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 16/09/2026Here's the thing about AI and nuclear war risks that even smart people are whiffing in the discourse—if you're more worried about the literal-ness of AI murders and not looking at the obvious accelerants of other existential risks, you're missing the point. 210732
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As some Democrats are rediscovering common sense on sex-segregated athletic competitions, conservatives are remembering that they don't actually care about or support women's sports. www.slowboring.com/p/destroying... 10461
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tom Nichols nails it here. 58013
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"There are a couple of things that made [Talarico's lead] possible…Talarico is running against one of the most corrupt, lazy, & personally repulsive Republican candidates in Ken Paxton." My latest @thebulwark.com: thebulwark.com/p/want-to-understand-why-talarico-can-win-listen-to-texas-trump-votersthebulwark.comWant to Understand Why Talarico Can Win? Listen to These Texas Trump Voters.Ken Paxton’s problem is that his opponent is hard for MAGA to hate. 1122341
Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ok, getting the covid jab this week then. Flu jab I like to wait until mid Oct 030
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Both Putin and Trump can tell themselves they are winning their wars: Putin by bombarding Ukrainian cities, Trump by blockading Iranian oil and getting some non-Iranian oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. But neither Ukraine nor Iran is anywhere close to defeat. wapo.st/4xstMAawapo.stOpinion | Trump and Putin are both wrong: They can’t win their warsAll that Ukraine and Iran have in common is their resilience against much larger adversaries. 1019066
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 12/09/2026🧵!!! 051
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 was traumatic for all Americans. But the U.S. and other governments panicked, and took their eyes off a lot of other threats for a while. We’re still living with the consequences of that panic. My look back at that day and what it brought: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comA Quarter Century of PanicAfter 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences. 69574156
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Trump's vow was....weird. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comTrump’s Weird Loyalty PledgeIn a night of wild emotions and odd ideas, one moment stood out. 4943179
Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I couldn't sleep the night after 9/11. So I listened to Keiko Matsui's new release on CD. Arigato Keiko san. 040
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Why does Trump hate #Canada so much? Because (like Putin and Ukraine) he can't imagine that it's actually an independent country and that it doesn't just do what he tells it to do. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comWhy Trump Has It Out for CanadaThe superficial similarities between the U.S. and its closest friend are likely driving much of the president’s vitriol. 63548132
Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 09/09/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comVoters Have a Message for DemocratsFight harder. 021
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦CDK@CRM-114/AE-35/M5 @cdavidkz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This was from 7 years ago, and Donald J. Trump's lies about 9/11/2001 have only (quite predictably) gotten worse... Psssst...Donald...New York will always hate you. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/u...nytimes.comFact-Checking Trump’s Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders (Published 2019)The president repeated claims about his presence at ground zero during the signing ceremony for legislation to ensure health care funding for emergency workers who rushed to help. 042
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The first excerpt of my new book “How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time” just dropped in The Atlantic. www.google.com/goto?url=CAE...google.comVoters Have a Message for DemocratsFight harder. 2345097
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Political violence almost never goes the way proponents hope, as fantasies of a pure cleansing fire crash into the reality of sadistic arsonists, reciprocal spirals, and innocent burn victims. 917045
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Tomorrow’s the day. My first book, How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time, is officially coming out. And I’m so excited to share it with the world: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comI can’t believe it’s almost here.Hey guys, it’s Sarah. 1619328
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Factional warriors on the left have invented a conspiracy to sink the Michigan senate race and then keep getting madder and madder about it rather than considering that it’s just not happening. www.slowboring.com/p/stop-makin... 11374
Reposted by Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My suggestion is - unless providentially hindered - do not vote by mail this midterm. Go in person. 199222
Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?static.klipy.comAl Pacino Shouts Attica!ALT: Al Pacino Shouts Attica! 28280
Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"And it’s beatable. Big numbers in person and they lose." 140